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By Ron Peacock (pavonews.com)

In your recent travels, has anyone noticed a post-election despondency amongst a certain segment of our population? On November 2nd, President Bush won re-election and the Republican Party gained an unprecedented second term majority of congressional seats. In the month following the election, the realities of these events have been beyond comprehension to a certain demographic of our population. It seems some of our left leaning brothers and sisters are seeing red and feeling blue.

It has come to this writer’s attention that a number of John Kerry supporters are seeking medical treatment for a formerly unknown ailment associated with loss or not having ones way. The symptoms manifest themselves in the form of pervasive moodiness, sulking, feelings of withdrawal, isolation, bitterness and anger (I could give you my personal diagnosis, but I wouldn’t want to be accused of ragging on the Democrats). The American Health Association has validated this puerile behavior by creating a new psychological disorder - Post-Election Selection Trauma (PEST). Fortunately for our misguided liberal friends, scores of psychotherapists are lining up eager to pitch their pseudo-intellectual snake oil like so many carnival sideshow geeks - "Why friends, for 300 plus dollars an hour, plenty of expensive mood altering medication, a recommended lifetime of treatment and a never ending litany of psycho-babble, we can guarantee our support and "professional" services as long as your payments are forthcoming." Listen up my suffering socialist friends, I am about to give you, free of charge, some exceptionally insightful advice and an irrefutable remedy: GET OVER IT!

Failing to understand the true reasoning behind their defeat, others of the purportedly tolerant, progressive and open-minded left, have resorted to labeling the voters of red states as rednecks, fundamentalist zealots, homophobes, stupid, illiterate, unenlightened and worse. This shameful outpouring of hate-speech is symptomatic of the bitter campaign and the Democrats acute denial in the wake of their parties political collapse. The truth is, in this post-911 world, the Democrats were unable to convince the American public they had anything remotely resembling a credible plan to secure the safety of our citizens and defeat terrorism on a global scale.

On November 2nd, our country spoke and as the map clearly reveals, the American people said: "Better Red Than Dead". We are in a struggle against a most cunning, cowardly and contemptible enemy. The majority of Americans understand that we must not relent. If we do not "stay the course" and defeat the radical Islamic terrorists, we will certainly face more death and suffering within our own borders; that is the ambition of our enemy. America has elected to retain our present war time President, in so doing, supporting our present policies of bringing the war to our enemy and democracy to the middle east.

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Ron Peacock is the publisher of the online conservative newsletter - The Pavo News, owner of RSS Technologies, Departmental Support Manager to Tu Rom Network Techniques and a decorated veteran of the US Army and the Air force National Guard.